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FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany (BRAIN) — Occasional rain showers and cool temperatures didn’t stop showgoers from getting on the trail for Eurobike’s Demo Day on Tuesday. For the first time, Demo Day was held on show grounds, adjacent to the Messe where the Eurobike expo takes place in Friedrichshafen. At an industry panel discussion held Tuesday morning, Eurobike show director Stefan Resinger

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Kandi Technologies Group Inc. (KNDI) climbed in U.S. trading while BYD Co. (BYDDF) advanced on optimism China’s support to build more battery charging facilities will spur demand for electric vehicles. Kandi, a maker of alternative-energy cars, rose 4.5 percent in New York yesterday, the most in a week. Shenzhen-based BYD, which is partly owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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The Chinese government may spend as much as $16 billion to fuel the growth of electric vehicles and development of charging stations. More state funding could help automakers tamp down concerns over the price, reliability and convenience of their electric vehicles, according to Reuters. It may be good news for Tesla Motors, which has targeted China for a major role

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Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) today launched the new C2000™ Delfino™ 32-bit F2837xS microcontrollers (MCUs). These single-core MCUs are the first in the industry to offer four 16-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), enabling precision feedback in power control applications. They are pin- and software-compatible with the recently introduced dual-core C2000 Delfino F2837xD MCUs and help expedite development when scaling from higher performance

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Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today expanded its microBUCK® family of integrated synchronous buck regulators with a new 3 A device offering a fixed 650 kHz switching frequency and a wide input voltage range of 4.5 V to 15 V. The Vishay Siliconix SiP12116 combines high-side and low-side n-channel MOSFETs with current-mode, constant on-time (CM-COT) control in the space-saving 3 mm by

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Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LTM4634, a triple output step-down µModule® (micromodule) regulator in a 15mm x 15mm x 5.01mm BGA package with integrated heat sink. The thermally-efficient package enables the LTM4634 to deliver full current on all three outputs (5A, 5A, and 4A), more than 70W of output power at 65 degrees C ambient with 200LFM airflow. Combined with

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is converting one of its laboratories into the equivalent of a small office building—not because of an increase in administrative overhead, but to develop and test smart software technologies designed to slash energy use in commercial buildings. From schools and hospitals to stores, offices and banks, commercial buildings account for a growing

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Yesterday, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) announced a worldwide voluntary recall and replacement program in cooperation with various government regulatory agencies, for affected ac power cords distributed worldwide with HP and Compaq notebook and mini notebook computers, as well as with ac adapters provided with accessories such as docking stations, sold from September 2010 through June 2012. This recall affects 5.6 million

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The EL9718E-M1 electronic load from Intepro Systems Ltd has been developed specifically to meet high-voltage applications and offers the same wide range of easy to use features found across Intepro’s EL97 series of electronic loads. The EL9718E-M1 is suited to be used in a host of different test environments on a wide range of products in any industrial environment, including;

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Maxwell Technologies, Inc. announced its new Electronic Voltage Transformer (EVT) for smart grid applications that range from 110 kV to 550 kV. The EVT is the latest addition to Maxwell’s CONDIS® family of high-voltage capacitors and capacitive dividers, and is used for digital current and voltage monitoring in smart grids to guarantee measurement accuracy of the grid. The EVT can

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